[aerogear-dev] Pipe spec

[Matthias Wessendorf]

Hello summers!

nice write up - I also commented on the PR, but a bit inline :)


On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Summers Pittman <supittma at redhat.com>wrote:

> So I've gotten a draft of the Pipe document up.
>
>
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear.org/blob/pipe_spec/docs/specs/aerogear-client-pipe/index.markdown
>
> Some things I would like to call out and discuss include
>
> 1 ) Pipe implementations should be thread safe.  Specifically calls to
> read, remove, and save should not change the internal state of a Pipe
> object.
>

+1 on that


>
> 2 ) Pipeline.get is not guaranteed to always return the same instance of a
> Pipe.
> This is something that came up with Android.  Loaders are 1:1 on the
> Activity or Fragment which references the Loader.  Therefore if a Pipe is
> reused between multiple Activities each one is proxied  in a different
> Loader.
>

hrm, I am not sure



>
> 3 ) A Pipe may proxy or delegate to a handler and this handler can be
> exposed as a property.
> This is an Androidism as well.  I think it can probably be dropped from
> the spec but I wanted to see what other people thought about it.
>


yeah, let's drop that


>
> Some things which we may need to flesh out to make the spec more complete
> are
>
> 1 ) Authorization and Authentication.  This is probably another document
>

+1 on a specific doc for that


>
> 2 ) A callback spec/definition.  I am not sure whether this is a separate
> document or not.  Either way it should be short and sweet.
>


I think this could be part of your Pipe Spec, it's really somewhat tied to
it


>
> 3 ) Platform implementation docs.  A document with the code
> examples/comparisons and notes where they may diverge from each other.  For
> instance in Android Callback is passed instances of the resource a pipe
> represents, but in iOS and Javascript the callback is passed a map of
> values.  I didn't explicitly define this behavior in the spec.
>


A usage doc, like we (Sebi :-)) did for Paging would be good


>
>
> Summers
>
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